THE TOP 300 + MISSPELLED WORDS -  List of Most Common Misspelled Words

A: Awkward, absence, accept, accidentally, accommodate, accommodation, achieved, acknowledge, acquainted, across, address, addresses, aerial, aggravate, all right, amateur, among, analysis, Antarctic, anxiety, apologise, apparent, appearance, appropriate, argument, arrangements, ascent, athletic, autumn, awful.

B: Bachelor, beautiful, beginning, behaviour (US spelling behavior), being, believed, benefited, bicycle, breathe, Britain, brochure, business.

C: Captain, cause, causing, ceiling, cemetery, certain, character, choice, clothes, college, coming, commitment, committed, committee, comparative, comparatively, competent, completely, conscience, conscientious, conscious, consistent, convenience, co-ordination, co-operation, copies, course, courteous, courtesy, criticism.

D: Deceive, decision, definite, desirable, desperate, desperately, different, disappeared, disappointment, disappointed, disastrous, disciplinary, discipline, dissatisfied.

E: Efficiency, eighth, eliminated, embarrass, embarrassed, embarrassing, emphasis, emphasise, (US spelling emphasize) enthusiasm, environment, equipped, essential, etc, exaggerate, exaggerated, excellent, exercise, exhausted, existence, expense, experience, extremely.

F: Failure, faithful, faithfully, familiar, favourite (US: favorite) February, financial, foreign, formerly, forty, friend, fulfil.

G: Gauge, genius, government, grammar, gramophone, grateful, grievance, guarantee, guard, guardian.

H: Handkerchief, height, heroes, honorary, humorous, hurriedly, hygiene, hypocrisy.

I: Imagination, immediate, immediately, immigrate, incidentally, independent, indispensable, influential, intelligence, interested, interrupt, irresistible, island.

J: Journey

K: Knife, knives, knowledge

L: Language, length, library, lightning, literature, livelihood, lonely, loneliness, lose, loose, losing, lying.

M: Magnificent, maintenance, marriage, marvellous, (US: marvellous) meant, measurements, medicine, Mediterranean, miniature, minutes, miscellaneous, mischievous, mystery, murmur.

N: Naïve, naturally, necessary, necessity, neighbours, (US: neighbors), neither, niece, noticeable, nuisance.

O: Obedient, occasion, occasional, occasionally, occur, occurred, occurrence, often, omitted, opinion, opportunity, ordinary, original, originally.

P: Parallel, paralysis, parliament, particular, pastime, patience, peculiar, perceive, permanent, permissible, permission, perseverance, personnel, persuade, physical, picture, planning, pleasant, popular, possess, possesses, possession, preceding, preference, prejudice, preparation, presence, privilege, procedure, proceeds, professional, professor, pronunciation, propriety, psychology, pursue.

Q: Quarrel, queue, queuing, quiet.

R: Realise (US: realize), really, receipt, received, recognised (US: recognized), recommend, recommended, referred, regularly, relevant, relieved, repetition, resemblance, responsibility, restaurant, rhyme, rhythm, ridiculous.

S: Safety, scarcely, school, science, secretary, secretaries, seize, sentence, separate, sergeant, series, serious, severely, similar, similarly, similarity, sincerely, skilful, soldier, speech, straight, strength, subtle, succeed, successful, supersede, suppression, surprise, surprising, synonym.

T: Taught, targeted, technique, temperature, temporary, tendency, theatre, though, thorough, tomorrow, tragedy, transferred. Twelfth.

U: Unconscious, unnecessary, until, usually.

V: Valuable, various, view.

W: Weigh, Wednesday, welcome, welfare, width, written, woollen (US:woollen).

Y: You’re

The commonest errors are:

It’s, occurred, received, humorous, privilege, separate, too, their

The following are both correct, and are commonly used:

Focused / focussed     
Inquire / Enquire

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